Six-Gun Showdown

Six-Gun Showdown
Delores Fossen

“I’m not dead.”The voicemail rocks deputy sheriff Jax Crockett to his core. A year ago, Paige was murdered by the Moonlight Strangler. Yet his ex-wife just showed up at his ranch–out of options and out of time. There are only two reasons Paige would come back to Texas with a killer hot on her heels: Jax and their toddler son. Faking her death was the only way to keep them alive. But now it’s Jax who’s risking everything to protect his family. The cowboy lawman is also reawakening a powder keg of desire. A desire that's primed and ready to explode. Giving in will up the ante, igniting the embers of a love they may not live to claim.

“Please hold me.”

That was the only warning Jax got before Paige was in his arms.

Instant jolt of memories. His body reminding him that it’d been way too long since he’d had her in his arms.

And in his bed.

Jax didn’t push her away, though. She was falling apart right in front of him, and he felt his arms close around her before he could talk himself out of it.

“I’m sorry,” she said.

The latest apology put his teeth on edge. No way could an apology erase what she’d done. For nearly a year, he’d grieved for her. Cursed her. Because he’d believed she had caused her own death. Now he was cursing her for lying to him. Cursing her because of this blasted attraction that just wouldn’t die.

Six-Gun Showdown

USA TODAY Bestselling Author

Delores Fossen

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

DELORES FOSSEN, a USA TODAY bestselling author, has sold over fifty novels with millions of copies of her books in print worldwide. She’s received a Booksellers’ Best Award and an RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Book Award. She was also a finalist for a prestigious RITA

Award. You can contact the author through her website at www.deloresfossen.com (http://www.deloresfossen.com).

Contents

Cover (#uec4a6cdb-d563-5f88-af5a-cf07affaaa20)

Introduction (#u1a657482-bf96-5c6a-98a0-12cf7889532f)

Title Page (#u40b0d482-3b43-5368-b5c9-b67accbae433)

About the Author (#u780fe09b-6546-5fef-95cf-db6d33bebb33)

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Extract (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter One (#u1dc77271-84a1-5bb5-87af-07f708569b2b)

I’m not dead.

The voice mail message caused Deputy Jax Crockett to freeze. He stabbed the replay button on his phone and listened to it again. Three words. That was it.

But it felt as if a stick of dynamite had just gone off in his chest.

Paige.

Oh, mercy. It was his ex-wife, Paige.

That was her voice, all right. He was sure of it. But it couldn’t be her because he’d buried her a year ago.

Jax listened to the message again. And again. Then, he checked the name and number of the caller.

Unknown.